Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Monday, 4 March 2013
Aberdeen's House Charity: The Magogo Foundation
The Aberdeen house 2012-2013 charity is called The Magogo Foundation. It is a fundraising education charity based in the UK supporting projects in and around Uganda's capital city, Kampala. We chose it to be this year’s charity because all the house representatives agreed it is a worthy cause, especially as it is that is near to where three of our house members are from. It is a recently formed charity set up by our Deputy Head of Charity (Harriet McGilvray)’s older sister.
In Uganda, education is the most important thing for a child to have. Sadly this privilege comes at a price, which many of the poverty stricken families cannot afford to pay and so their children cannot attend school. The Magogo Foundation was founded in order to provide the children from a small village (Magogo) just outside Kampala with a new better-equipped school, because their old ‘school’ collapsed when a wall caved in after a heavy rainfall. Luckily no people were injured, however it was incredibly hard for the school to cope with, as money was very short and rebuilding would have been impossible without any help with funding.
Progress has been excellent over the last year and the new school has been built. Finishing touches are now taking place, but the charity is still making use of donations by helping buy other elements such as schoolbooks and pens – necessities that are a must in all schools, which many Ugandan primary schools go without.
We have had a very successful bake sale and raised a solid amount of money so far - hopefully with more to come!
Any further donations will be hugely appreciated and will make a big difference to the lives of many African children and adults linked to The Magogo Foundation. For any other information and links to donating sites click on http://magogofoundation.weebly.com/index.html !
Sunday, 3 March 2013
Weekend Antics
Literally fun and games at House Olympics on Saturday night, followed by some serious chilling out on Sunday.
Friday, 1 March 2013
Final Rehearsal - sounding good
This was the final rehearsal before performing the House Song. It sounds great. We are still smiling after winning the Best Girls Song 2013.
Star of the Week: Maxine
Maxine throws herself into many aspects of College life and is now a College Sacristan. She has worked really hard at her netball too and is representing the College in the 4th tomorrow. She is both warm and friendly to all the members of the House and is rightfully Star of the Week.
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| Maxine pulling a face in protest of me taking her picture! |
Busy first week back
Mrs Newson's U14 Boys Hockey Team have become Sussex Hockey Champions this week. They beat Hurstpierpoint in the Final 4-0. A great team performance.
They now go on to represent Sussex in the South Regional Championships next week.
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